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Although YouTube has been blocked from many/most schools, for obvious reasons and not so obvious ones. YouTube does provide great resources and content for teachers and students. View the list of the Top 100 Videos for Teachers.

Developing Online From Simplicity toward Complexity: Going with the Flow of Non-Linear Learning

"Students today have instant access to information through technology and the web, manage their own acquisition of knowledge through informal learning, and have progressed beyond consumers of content to become producers and publishers. As a result, traditional teaching and learning methods are becoming less effective at engaging students and motivating them to achieve."

Ipad Mobile Perspectives: On iPadsWhy Mobile?

"he facilitator attempts to provide circumstances that will enable students to engage with the learning opportunities and construct for themselves their understandings and skills"

"The use of robotics as an educational tool is growing in popularity. Advances in technology have resulted in the development of generic robotic construction kits for use in grade school (K-12) environments."

"Quest to Learn "builds on the best of what we know about how kids learn but does it with a 21st-century twist,"

"Social media has several effects on academic work - some more positive than others. But what is social networking's overall impact on college students' performance?"

Teaching Lifelong Learning Skills with Twitter: A Lesson for Leaders

The Flipped Class: Myth vs. Reality

"Teaching Methods: Inquiry with Kath Murdoch"

"JE: But you're not saying that technology is a bad thing, to have it there is a good thing, isn't it? AS: Well, absolutely. I think technology is there to stay. Technology has huge potential to transform, to fundamentally transform, learning processes. You know it can create a much more open pedagogical environment, it can connect the home environment and the school environment, it can give students access to the most advanced knowledge, anywhere, anytime, rather than giving them a textbook that was printed last year and maybe designed five years ago.  So, there's huge potential for technology to transform learning, but what our report clearly shows is that's not what's happening today."

"Now a study in Personality and Individual Differences has added to this picture by showing that students who believe they have "free will" in the philosophical sense (they agree with statements like "I have free will" and "I am in charge of my actions even when my life's circumstances are difficult") tend to do better academically. The result suggests that it's not just people's beliefs about the nature of ability that influences their scholarly performance, but also their more fundamental beliefs about the limits of human choice and volition."